Aurora Orozco gets a ride on the boot of her father, Sgt. Jeremy Orozco, before he departs for Fort Hood, Texas, with other members of the 1638th Transportation Company of the Indiana National Guard in Wolcott, Ind. The outfit is being trained at Fort Hood for a month before being deployed to Afghanistan for a year tour of duty.

Savannah Walker hugs Alex James during a candlelight vigil in honor of Richard Michael Ridgell in Westminster, Md. Ridgell was killed in Monday's shooting at the Navy Yard in Washington.

Staff Sgt. Jose Pantoja, a flight medic with the Colorado Air National Guard, carries an unidentified evacuee up a hoist onto a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter during flood rescue and recovery operations near Boulder, Colo.